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...goes in spurts. For years major U.S. orchestras are under the baton of an established conductor. Then one or two podiums open up, and suddenly a game of musical chairs is under way. Right now that game has never been livelier. Antal Dorati has taken over in Detroit, leaving Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony to Mstislav Rostropovich. St. Louis has plucked young American Leonard Slatkin from New Orleans. San Francisco selected Edo de Waart from Rotterdam, after Seiji Ozawa relinquished that post to concentrate on his other job in Boston. Minnesota has grabbed two top Europeans: Britain...
...strangest musical customs in New York City. Three or four times a year, Charlotte Bergen, a wealthy recluse from Bernardsville, N.J., rents Carnegie Hall and conducts a free concert. She hires the American Symphony Orchestra and various soloists, gets out her 2-ft.-long baton and mounts the podium as maestro for the day-paying some $40,000 for the Mittyesque experience. She has no formal training in conducting. Also she is a frail woman of 81 encumbered with a heavy back brace...
Harvard junior Geoff Stiles is to a pole what F. John Adams is to a baton, and Saturday he turned in a fortissimo effort in setting a meet and facility record with his 16 ft. 1-1/4 in. leap...
...final race of the meet, the mile relay, a race Harvard had to win and Tufts had to finish last for Harvard to move into an overall tie in the meet, Mary Howard brought the baton home in a record time of 4:11.9, but a superior Tufts relay team easily outdistanced the Terriers to insure the Jumbo victory...
...second half, Cyrus Booker picked up the baton for Harvard, scoring nine of his 11 points. After center Brian Banks went to the bench when he was slapped with his fourth personal foul with 15 minutes left to play, Booker stepped into the pivot post with his customary aplomb...